GGRB05H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Majora Carter, Ecological Modernization, Deindustrialization
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Defining nature" and its relationship with the urban realm. Cities as a threat to the environment. The environment as a threat to cities: natural" disasters, climate change and urban poverty. Cities are not unnatural if we consider that we are also part of nature and the materials we transform through our labour (concrete, steel, asphalt) also come from the earth (see. Cities are hybrid spaces: i. e. complex assemblages of the natural, the technological and the human (latham p58). We use a host of technological infrastructures to transform and move natural elements around the city (water systems, electricity grids, grocery stores, waste systems etc ) In this view, nature is an intricate part of the city in the mundane things that we do, from drinking water from our taps, to eating dinner to watching netflix. This view understands cities as complex assemblages of different species, energy and material flows and biophysical processes;
